photoshop reflection help needed :(

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Posted by wozza on Mar-13-2003 23:33:

photoshop reflection help needed :(

Hi
Ive been having trouble trying to get this reflection to look realistic, but ive tryed for ages on this pic now and still i cant get it too line up correctly and was wondering if anybody in here could help me in this respect heres the pic.

wozza

Posted by k.k.d. on Mar-13-2003 23:39:

First of all, sheer the reflection image a bit to give it the appearance of being more wattery... Then I would of scaled it in Y to be smaller... Then I would of made it a lot darker, and by all means, not different sahde of color than the original, but that's just me (diff colors just accentuate the effect of fakiness)

As for line-up, consider that the part of the wheels (of the original) that are in the water are not part of reflexion, lol..

Posted by DaveSZ on Mar-14-2003 02:32:

Hmmmz. I sux @ photoshop, but I still use it quite a bit to beautify my photos before putting them online......

Sorry I can't help you with that man.

Are you using version 7 BTW??? Where can I get a copy of V7?? I'm using 5.5 right now...

Posted by kirbtastic on Mar-14-2003 05:24:

might wanna throw a gradient overlay on the reflection so its darker under the green car..u also need to rotate the green car a bit they are at different angles..the zig zag filter might help out the reflection a bit..but basically u have 2 different cars and it will never look right unless u are a real psd pro

Posted by wozza on Mar-14-2003 16:19:

well i had a go at it, was pissing me off so much that i left it as this, tell me if it looks anything like a reflection, thx

wozza

Posted by Tranex02 on Mar-14-2003 16:54:

kkd's advice is pretty good!
as for the new pic, try a different filter, cuz u can tell that the wavy-ness is fake...... and make the reflection darker, or like kirbtastic said, add a gradient, using the gradient might give it the texture of the asfalt on the road...

good luck

Posted by dj_mdma on Mar-14-2003 18:44:

Nice stuff there Wozza! I wish i could do that so that at least i could sorta know what my car would look like! I like the way you've turned a Lexus into a stretched Renault Clio V6

Posted by skaborough fats on Mar-15-2003 01:30:

First you got's to work out your scaling issues...

The green-green example nailed that... well close.

just remember that you need to distort the picture. Water isn't like a mirror. It's close, but not the same. Darken it and make it a bit transparent so the 'ground' under the 'water' shows a bit.

I can see that you were on the right track with the underside of the car... but I wouldn't worry about that so much... the underside of a car is dark right, shadows and all.

wozza was close... just don't make the reflection so solid.

Cheers,
Fats